Descartes and Nietzsche both state with the individual, but in different ways and senses. Descartes starts his investigation of what can be known with certainty with the thought experiments of the individual, namely, the individual perceiver and thinker, namely, himself. Nietzsche, is concerned with himself as an author, he wrote his own autobiography and titled it Ecce Homo, meaning “behold, the Man” using a title sometimes used in biographies of Jesus, and also considers his …showed first 75 words of 1436 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1436 total…and state that they are in forms the stage where their ethical growth and maturity develop. The happiness that is man’s highest goal is that very process of individual and social development that Aristotle sees as cultivating virtue. Augustine, in contrast, is concerned with the individual and his relation to God, and the individual as becoming a member of God’s Holy City as more important than fulfilling man’s civic responsibilities on earth.